hi!!!!

nobody can prepare you for how loud the sound is. (this was my first concert ever, i know some folks go "ghost isn't as loud!" but i'm very much a concert baby). it's great but holy shit 😭 I took out one of my earplugs for like 3 songs and realized that screaming sounded Flat. bring earplugs. up to you ultimately. only had them out since I couldn't hear the backing vocals that well,,

I also couldn't see Aurora from where I was, apologies on the lack of Aurora mentions 🫡

Playlist of all of Vancouver's songs, including the 15 preshow songs:

In no particular order, with some probable inaccuracies:

The setlist rotators were Per Aspera, Pinnacle, CMLS, and Satan Prayer. I got 2/4 of my setlist hopes, wanted Elizabeth and Majesty. This ritual did confirm that Per Aspera does indeed rotate with Elizabeth :D, I still love Per Aspera anyways so it was a win either way.

Vancouver was LOUD. The pit was constantly active (I saw nearly all of their hands go up to cheer @ heavy engagement parts), the entire arena would get really loud during cheering bits. Satanized, Monstrance, and Rats come to mind for really loud audience sing-alongs.

Cirrus, Haze, and Storm interacted so much. Storm didn't interact as much with them before Cirice. Before then, he was mainly doing regular Storm activities (beating his chest, stomping, gesturing devil horns, giving barricade heart hands, holding his jacket's lapels, especially stepping from side to side).

Cirrus and Haze kept on doing finger wiggles to each other, gesturing and showing off with their wings, dancing together, talking/laughing, heart signs etc. they were really cute!! wish I remembered more

Haze joined Cirrus on her platform during Dance Macabre's keys heavy portion again :D, Cirrus would play her keys and Haze would lean in and dance with her.

i get why Cirrus gets referred to as a lioness @ strutting onto stage (wish I saw Prequelle live). i saw her emerge from the stage right stairwell and instantly started screaming.

After Mummy Dust's keytar solo, Cirrus hung around Phantom on stage right and basically hyped him up. Think of Disney knees + headbanging. She did a grabbing motion above his head before wiggling her fingers and walking off.

Pinnacle in particular had both Cirrus and Haze doing similar dance moves. Hands up near their heads during "Pinnacle", then dramatic falls/stomps/bend-downs for "Pit". need it engrained into my head.

At multiple points in the ritual, Cirrus was hella hyped up. Ghouls would circle her. Phantom would jam out on the horseshoe beside her, Haze and Storm would both be hyping. Papa also jammed out with her during Cirice's primary keys solo, as always. GO LADY GHOUUUUL GOOOO <3

I didn't see many Dew and Cirrus moments during Umbra, but I miiiight be blind @ Ryan post having a Dew and Cirrus photo. I just remember her wiggling fingers and him not visiting her.

also the ghouls sitting during Umbra was really cute

Storm and Cirrus played Rock, Paper, Scissors at least twice. Cirrus won the first time, to Storm's disappointment. I didn't see who won the second time during Square Hammer's nailing. pls tell me if you remember who won.

Storm accidentally hit his keys during the break between Umbra and Year Zero, he shrugged and Cirrus shook her head. me too man.

At some point, Cirrus and Haze were using their wings and Storm chimed in, showing that he had no wings via gesturing to his coat. They used their wings again and he flapped his arms, shaking his head. me too man.

Storm thrusted during Year Zero. Particularly, he grabbed the air infront of his waist, then thrusted.

i want to be closer to the pyros.

i think at some point during a song's ending, two concussions went off, with a slight second delay in-between them.

During Sorrows, Storm knelt down towards crowd left and gently tossed a pick to someone. He clasped(?) his hands together afterwards and wandered off. ,, he's becoming one of my favourite ghouls. i'm mainly a papa enjoyer (despite my cirrus, haze and chain fixation), so that's new.

i know that this is a crowd left report but i do not remember much of phantom. i am so sorry. i swear i was screaming for him whenever he'd visit 😭. He spent a ton of time with us though, he'd gesture at us and we'd instantly cheer. Phantom also threw a ton of kisses at us, and missed a ton of throws. Think he was fixated around the center of his stands, since he threw a ton of kisses and picks there.

i thought we were getting majesty as i didn't know that Phantom hypes up the crowd for both cmls and majesty. i like cmls. but undeniably i love majesty.

when umbra started to play, the people around me and I started getting super hyped up. directly quoting: "We need more Cowbell!" "I don't recognize this." "There's cowbell. Cowbell. Cowbell." "Cowbell? I love a cowbell." "WATCH, HE'S GONNA RISE." "Like, a Will Ferrell cowbell?" "Just watch. He's gonna rise out of the ground." "Woo!" "Cowbell!" "COWBELL!" "COWBELL!" "COWBELL!" "COWBELL!" "COWBELL?" "COWBELL!" "There's a cowbell!" "THERE! LOOK! LOOK!" "HERE WE GO!" "COWBELL!" [everyone starts to imitate holding a cowbell to hit] "BRING IT UP, LET'S GO!" "WHERE'S THE COWBELL, I DON'T HEAR IT?" [cowbell starts] "OH IT'S THERE!" "HERE WE GOOO!"

I don't remember much of Rain and Sodo, though I really like Rain's veil. he works it. they're both really cool i was just really entranced by the ghoulettes i'm so sorry 😭

During Call Me Little Sunshine, both Cirrus and Storm were basically facing Papa and staring up at him. Haze was too at some points, while also having her hands clasped behind her back.

i do get why there's body double theories @ how jagged Papa moves during CMLS. i swear he looked off during umbra's instrumental too, he stared at us and it didn't feel right. he also like... BOOKED IT asap.

.. i don't remember much of anything papa-related beyond him jumping mid-skip and doing some sort of mid-air splits. he's so surreal though. i mainly fixate on papas i swear i just have bad memory @ actions 😭

papa did give us a bitch ass "noo.." during rats

before I spam audios, my phone was fully away in its pouch and i was fully engaged with the band. i didn't expect it to actually pick up audio that well. i also did not expect the battery to last. (it went from 80% to 40%). no way would I ever record with my camera.

the main ultimate goal of the phone ban is to avoid having phones in the band's faces. interaction is also the other main goal too w/both the band and other fans. my personal goal was to have something to remember my concert by, beyond my haul, and honestly, i generally just really have a raging need for documentation.

if you want to view a much more allowed form of documentation, check out my skeletour photography archive. it lists links to galleries and photographer social media posts (not an archive of images). go support the local photogs! there's also my media spreadsheet that lists prequelle and opus photography as well, very much a work in progress.

AUDIO SPOILERS BELOW:

(audio + transcript, fully able to read them w/o actually hearing them. mainly speeches.)

"VANCOUVER! FROM BEYOND THE TWILIGHT ZONE, THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD... GHOOOST!"

TFIAFL Speech:

"Well, good evening, Vancouver. How do you do? Good… , we're back! Well, I noticed that we haven't been here in seven years." [crowd uproar] "Hm? Boo hoo. I know, I know, I know, that's bad! Not good! I'm sorry. Okay? But it feels good now, right? That's what matters. Seven years is a long time. Three years is also a long time, depending on what happens. But I want you to know: never forget, that the future is always a foreign land--"

Satan Prayer:

"We're gonna soon find out how Satanized you are here in Vaaancouvah! Start by putting your paws together.. give a good ol' steady clap! ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR! ALL TOGETHER NOW PEOPLE! ALL YOUR HANDS TOGETHER NOW, YEAH! LIKE TRUE BELIEVERS!"

"Let me help you out! The lyrics go: Hear our Sa-tan Pra-yer! Our Anti-Nic-ene Creed-- that's the hard part! Hear our Satan Pra-yer, for the Coming.. of seed! Sing it!" [Crowd Singing] "Yeah!" [Crowd Singing] "One more time people!" [Crowd singing] "Once more!" [Crowd singing] "Everyone!"

KTGG:

"Woo! How you doing Vancouver?! Are you feeling it? Saturday night! Does it feel like a Saturday night? Good. Is it filled with love n stuff? Huh? Are you having a Happy Valentine's? Is all of y'all hoping for something-something tonight, huh? Hm. Well! I'm afraid.. I'll disappoint you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not going to stay in town for that long. It's a lil' bit freezing out as well. So all you people lined up, out in the parking lot-- that'll take a long fucking time. It will get a little old after a while! But sure as shit I wish, one day, we could go do that together. It will be a great day for our nations! Now wouldn't that be something.. now! What we can do though however, it's a little bit of a .. sort of making out. Making mends? No hanky panky, but how about a kiss, Vancouver? YOU WANT A KISS?"

"Mwah!" [Attempts to get crowd hyped via mwahing certain sections] "Mwah! … Mwah! .. Mwah!" [backs up and goes up to rain, who was standing near the drums on sodo's side.] [gets his opinion. A ton of Rain doing so-so motions, some nods, etc. it looks like they were talking.] [loud cheering as Papa goes to center thrust, etc.] "Everybody gets a kiss! So, MWAHHHHH!! [sung] EVERYBODY IN VANCOUVER GETS A KISS~ Now you people, we gotta get physical after all! We gotta locate and tickle your taints!" [GROOOOOOOOOOWLLLLL]

Mummy Dust to Monstrance Clock Speech:

[unsure, it's just plain ol'.. something] "How bout that Vancouver??? Did you like that? Did it make you feel good? Is that one step closer to some sort of physical uh… thing? You felt it somewhere in the undercarriage?" [ looks down, picks up red lacy bra and holds it in air. ] "… Who dropped this? That yours? How did that.. how did that end up here? You have to wear it." [picks up black panties] "What's going on here? How is it even physically possible, if you're dropping it, and it ends up being on my stage-- that's a fucking hazard. Well, well. You have a choice now, lady. You wanna get it back, or you gonna leave it to Richie Surrency here in the front? Ladies and gentlemen, Richie Surrency, here in the front! Taking care of business, and dropped undies." [Crowd begins to chant "Richie, Richie, Richie!"] "Yeah, good ol' Richie chant! .. Yeah, well, he's worth that. It took me a long time before I understood that he was there for YOUR security, I thought it was for mine! But you see, it was the other way around--that was the problem, to keep you safe from me, otherwise eat. Now! We're gonna make good use of your chanting skills. Because, despite, the underwear on here that's lost so, alotta.. other trash here on stage now, all this confetti and all these fake bills, that was supposed to be yours. So we're gonna call upon someone, a certain someone but it's gonna take all of us to work together so bring out your best faithful chanting skills and join in on a good! ol'! Je-sus Chant! Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, hey! Hey, hey, come on! Jesus! Jesus! You call it-- and he cometh, and he bloweth! Blow it all! Ladies and gentlemen, Kevin Jesus Koffman, from New York Citah! Thank you Kevin! All right. How are you doing? Good. So. Happy Valentine's to you~ ah. We're gonna let you.. uh. ride… out into the Vancouverian night now, soon. Yeah, we're almost done now. …We have one more song, though. I love your underwear though, very good. Uh, but before we do, I'm obviously apologizing for the fact that we took fucking seven years to get back-- I'm sorry about that. But throughout all of these years that we have been coming around here, even though it's been a bit sporadic, you know. Ever since the first night- Rickshaw? Whatever was-- was it there? Anybody know? Rickshaw? You were there? Alright! Me too, alright. Alright. Commodore Ballroom? First time I ever took a double shower. Not because I needed two, but they were two showers at the same time. Religious experience! I'll always remember Vancouver for that. But then we came back, repeatedly! It was not just because it's fun and because of the double showers, it was because of you people! You realize that? You kept showing up! You kept giving a fuck! You kept being passionate! So we did the same thing. All these times. So thank you, for not making us look like a bunch of fucking assholes all those nights. So, from the bottom of all of our hearts here on stage, and from the bottom of mine, thank you for not making us look like assholes tonight Vancouver! Now.. before I get all teary-eyed, and before we part.. , I give you, Monstrance Clock [ineligible]."

During Monstrance's Ending:

"That's it Vancouver! Thank you all for being here tonight, enjoy the rest of your weekend, take care of each other, and get laid! Peace!"

Audio limit go brr, therefore video with multiple audios instead. sorry for the jarring transitions.

Encore Speech:

"We try to fool ya. It never fucking works. So who's taking it(?)? We can try without realizing that the show is fuckin' over. Do you believe me?" [Crowd screams no] "Do I look like someone that'd fuckin' lie to ya?" [Crowd cheering] "Hm. Well I do? Huh? Well I am, okay then. Fuck that, alright! We're gonna play a few more songs. Now well okay, we're back! whaddya want? Well, it's already predetermined anyway-- we've already decided anyway. Yep! So it's just.. false hope I'm giving you, trying to get us to play whatever you want, and play whatever the fuck we want! We think you want to hear this one, this is an old song that I actually inherited from my dad! [Ineligible] Sing it along if you know it!"

Pre-Dance Macabre:

"Thank you Vancouver! We're gonna dance tonight! Do you wanna dance? Do you know how to dance? ALRIGHT! A-ONE, TWO, FUCK YOU!"

Post-Dance Macabre:

"Alright Vancouver, we're almost done for real now, have you had fun? Do you all feel a little bit better than you did three hours ago? Good! Good stuff! Take that with you all into tomorrow, see you safe- some other time. Now see, you see my friend here? He's really good at kicking ass! And he's gonna kick all your asses one last time, you see? And you're gonna like it! He's gonna kick your ass so hard, it'll kick you all the way 'til tomorrow! So knock it up, you motherfucka!"

Square Hammer Ending:

"Now we're done Vancouver! [what the fuck], we love each and every one of you! Good night!"